The History of the Civil Rights Movement and the Women Who Inspired It

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It seems to be that sex is at the center of the freedom struggle from slavery through the present day. We see the way whites projected their own crimes and deviant behaviors onto black men and women in order to maintain their own political and social and economic power.

Consider the history of the civil rights movement, but set aside for a moment the well-known stories from men: those of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Emmett Till, Medgar Evers and Andrew Goodman. If we examine the movement through the eyes of the women there at the time, what would the story sound like?